Our signature doula programme is a 10-day in-person comprehensive doula training for aspiring and practising doulas, birth workers, and health care professionals, rooted in a holistic understanding of birth physiology and psychology.

We weave empirical wisdom and modern science together in an intensive training, placing emphasis on our embodied, practical and holistic approach to being doulas.

How a person is cared for during pregnancy, birth and postpartum significantly influences not only how they give birth, but also how they feel about the experience for years to come. Birthing a child is a sacred, vulnerable, and transformative time, and the quality of care received throughout can affect the long term physiological health and mental well-being of the parent, well beyond the early parenthood years.

Caring for people in pregnancy, birth and postpartum is changing the paradigm of humanity, healing the world by changing the culture of birth. As doulas, mothers, women, and holistic women’s health care providers we experience and witness the massive gaps in care around pregnancy, birth and postpartum.

Extensive published research has demonstrated that doulas fill the gaps in maternity care and provide benefits in medical outcomes, improving fulfilment and satisfaction as the mother or parents define it.

Yet modern pre- and perinatal medical care focuses almost exclusively on the physical safety of the baby and birthing person, and places little emphasis on their emotional well-being, relationship with partner, and readiness to parenthood.

We wish to change that!

Become familiar with the foundations of being a doula, learn how to support clients and community with an integrated understanding of birth physiology, and emerge with the knowledge of how you as a doula can inform, guide and hold space for your clients.

Furthermore you will:

• understand how you can make a significant change while promoting health and wellbeing in pregnancy and birth with your clients and community
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• know the blueprint of birth and beyond
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• be equipped to offer clients a framework for understanding birth and postpartum
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• study and practise the requirements for supporting people through birth in all its forms
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• feel prepared, confident and excited about how you as a doula can make a significant impact in today’s birth culture.

We want to educate and inspire doulas, with emphasis on how you as a certified doula can offer support in pregnancy, labour and early postpartum.

The intention of our training is to

• offer substantial education from the five modular pillars of the training: Informational support, Physical support, Emotional support, Embodying support and Professional support.
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• inspire and train you to become a doula who can guide and support primarily the pregnant and labouring person, but also to provide education, quality care and support to a partner.
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• educate and inspire doulas to support families in every possible setting for birth, such as homebirth, hospital birth, birth clinic etc.
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• motivate to self enquiry, embodied knowledge and the cultivation of conscious leadership which we consider essential for being a doula and birth professional.

Our doula training uniquely integrates traditional birth and midwifery wisdom with our specialised Copenhagen Doulas’ Doula Training material. In total, we have been working in the realm of birth for more than 35 years. We have instilled that extensive experience and passion as doulas into this programme, providing our students a serious advantage through access to concrete first-hand advice and practices.

We have created this course for you to gain the confidence and knowledge necessary to become a doula and support women in pregnancy and birth.

Because we trust in birth, we believe in women and know that this work can change our birth culture!